Priapus and Flora
The organically mechanistic figures as realized in the work of Zabet Puckett, cocoon in the tightly knit compositions lifted from the earth to some transcendental region. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
Priapus’s lust and obsession is suggested as a surge of life giving fluid left to the imagination. The use of perspective gives the viewer a sense of falling. It scoops down a vertigo and manifests into a a mythic fawn brandishing her tail-feather. A doe is the symbol of shy fugitive innocent womanliness. His stalking and perversion is no more in his control than the surge of the water fall with gravity.
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